Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

The revolution will be supervised.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

The words do not have to be perfect.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

The willow is too close to the house.

After roe, women are no longer free.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

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  2. 2.

    JPL

    So this happened yesterday, the one year old figured out how to put on the Bosc cd player and then played the linkamals at the same time.   Believe me it was like a frat party but with kiddy noises.

    The Bosc is a swipe so could have been accidental, but he definitely knows how to start the linkamals.

  7. 7.

    catclub

    reinforcing my belief that no good comes from socializing with people.

    herd immunity…. eventually.

  9. 9.

    steppy

    That’s funny (yeesh, not ha-ha). I am just getting over my first cold in 3 years myself. I tested negative, so I know it’s a cold. Socializing is just the cost of doing business.

  11. 11.

    LeftCoastYankee

    reinforcing my belief that no good comes from socializing with people

    Anti-social curmudgeons of the world unite!  Ok, that’s too close… back up some over there….

  14. 14.

    lowtechcyclist

    The kiddo had a great time at his high school’s homecoming dance last night. Looked real sharp, too, in black shirt and black slacks.

  15. 15.

    pat

    My “common cold” in March turned out to be Covid.

    Get a test, stay away from people (yeah, I know you will…..)

  16. 16.

    Betsy

    I lost one of my oldest friends a few days ago and learned about her passing today. We’d stayed in touch 32 years, although less often in the last ten years or so. Of course I wish I’d called more frequently.

    It’s been a tough year. She was smart and funny and kind.  I have lost several dear people this year and I almost feel like there is not anyone left to talk to. 

  17. 17.

    geg6

    @JPL:

    Thanks for explaining.  I’d consider getting that for my grand-niece and —nephews but my niece would probably murder me.  Three under 3 are going to be enough (one is not quite here yet.  He’s due in December.).

  18. 18.

    dww44

    @Betsy:  I am so sorry for your loss of your friend.  Losing one’s peers are, for me, the hardest losses to overcome.  I hope you are able to find peace, and even a bit of joy as time passes.

  19. 19.

    Ohio Mom

    @Betsy: It’s true, there’s no friend like an old friend. There’s no replacing shared history; it’s hard breaking new friends in, hell, it’s hard finding someone you want to put the effort into.

    But what choice do we have? I say this as someone who is also at a crossroads. In the past few years I’ve loss a couple of friends to death and a number more to distance (though who could blame them for leaving Ohio?). We do our best to text and email and call but it isn’t the same as being together in person.

    I hope you are able to make peace with these awful losses — of course there is no time line to grief, it takes as long as it takes. I hope also you are able to find the wherewithal to search for a new person or two “to talk to.” In the mean time, we are all here for you in these comment threads.

  20. 20.

    Mel

    @Betsy: I’m so sorry. Your friend sounds like the kind of friend that is what my late friend Jen called “heart family”. I lost her, suddenly and unexpectedly, 10 years ago after a 35 year friendship.

    It’s a shock to every part of the system when someone you love and have loved for so many years is suddenly gone.

    You are in my thoughts tonight, as is your friend. Please take extra good care of yourself, and know that your friend knew how very much you cared about her.

    Sending you a hug.

  21. 21.

    persistentillusion

    @LeftCoastYankee: Introverts of the World, Unite! Somewhere in Montana, where there’s room to spread out

     

    ETA: I’m sorry to hear of so much loss tonight. Somebody said “May the thought of them bring a tear to your eye and a warm feeling to your heart.”

  22. 22.

    Splitting Image

    My workplace began bringing remote workers back to the office at the beginning of September. Most departments are coming in only one day a week, remote working the rest of the time. My department is small, only four people, two on the day shift and two in the evenings.

    So four people coming in one day a week, for four weeks. One person on vacation for two of those weeks. That’s fourteen shifts altogether.

    Yesterday my partner on the evening shift told me that she tested positive for COVID. She tested negative on Friday but positive on Saturday. I have no symptoms and haven’t tested positive yet, so crossing my fingers, but still. Four weeks of four people working one day a week to get a positive.

    “COVID is over”. Sure.

  23. 23.

    Suzanne

    @Splitting Image: My office supposedly “returned to office” in June, I think. I say “I think” because they have mandated three days a week in the office and not many people are doing it. I live across the state, so I have an “as needed” arrangement. And now they released a new WFH policy to deal with people who moved out of the area and new hires they’re getting outside of the area who are fully remote. It just doesn’t seem to be working out.

    And we still have the occasional positive and then all their close contacts have to stay home and it’s just a big hassle and I don’t think offices are worth any of it.

  24. 24.

    wenchacha

    Got my Moderna bivalent booster Wednesday, think I will get a flu shot tomorrow. I’m flying to San Jose via NYC in a little over a week, to see my son and his family and probably all the germs my grandson brings home from daycare. Worth it!

    My son got Covid last week, my DIL and grandson tests neg, so far. Maybe they already had asymptomatic cases; hard to tell.

  27. 27.

    Nancy

    @Betsy:

    Sympathies don’t seem like enough.

    It’s tough to lose treasured friends, impossible to imagine ever finding new friends, so hard to find the energy to think about how one meets people.

    Sad for your losses, glad you are here, in virtuality and spirit, among people who surely understand loss.

  28. 28.

    Nancy

    @Betsy:

    Sympathies don’t seem like enough.

    It’s tough to lose treasured friends, impossible to imagine ever finding new friends, so hard to find the energy to think about how one meets people.

    Sad for your losses, glad you are here, in virtuality and spirit, among people who surely understand loss.

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